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Project Overview

The Catalyst project will demonstrate a practical implementation of a closed loop functionality, used to heal and optimize a converged network running on both traditional and virtualized infrastructures, relying on both network and services inputs. The focus will be on Agile IT contribution to the efficiency of services leveraging it even further to customer experience level. Several standards, recommendations and interfaces will be used to support the integration, including TM Forum PM & PIE and 3GPP PM /CM. The catalyst is also related to recent TM Forum & ETSI NFV work and to NGMN recommendations.

In this new phase of the catalyst, the participating management systems use service level information and customer experience data to analyze the direct impact of scaling, healing and optimization on services and customers. This is demonstrated at two levels, either through direct management commands or through a higher level policy modification.

User Stories (Use Cases)

The catalyst is focusing on three main user stories as described below.

Main theme: Closed loop in a hybrid network based on both Network and Customer alerts, Network Scaling

Detailed description:

The End-to-End CEM reports an alarm event to the polocy manager on a social App (e.g. Socialcase) Health degradation at Corporate level

The Policy Manager runs root cause analysis on the Socialcast service via exchanges with the Service Performance Management system

The automated RCA provides 2 recommendationsms:

Increase buffer size of certain routers of the IP backhaul

Scale out of vMME (S1 KPIs at eNodeB level detect abnormal ranges)

The policy layer triggers 2 actions:

One to the orchestrator for vMME scale out

One to the CM system for parameter change on IP routers for buffer size increase

Both Orchestrator and CM are notifying the Policy Control that recommendations have been successfully executed

End-to-End CEM detects normal Socialcast Health KQI few minutes after those changes and notify the Policy Manager for audit purpose

Dependencies

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Participants

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Project Workstreams and Deliverables

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The Catalyst Demo

The demo of the integrated systems, using several standard interfaces (TM Forum PM API, 3GPP PM/CM)

June 2015

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Developed Use Cases

A list of developed use cases, mapped to ETSI NFV work

June 2015

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Member Validation and Feedback Approach

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Confluence Space

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JIRA Space

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GitHub

Code repository

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Project Management

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Liaison Relationships

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